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Chapter 212:
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“Don’t you want to know where your son is?”. Peter raised his eyebrows.
“Of course I want to! But I hope you can tell me in person.” replied William very calmly.
“If you go to the police station and tell the authority that you have bribed the high officials, then I will tell you where your son is!” said Peter.
“Do you really have any proof?”
“There is too much proof!” Peter smiled coldly, “Any of the evidence I have is enough to put you in jail for at least 10 years.”
“Peter, you are not my opponent, do you know what you are now?” William laughed.
“Wait and see!”
“You sure are a fool!” William shook his head helplessly.
“If it weren’t for our relationship as close friends for many years, I wouldn’t have forgiven you! What if that villa is in my name? I’m fine with you living there, so what if the bank account has more money in it? Then how can the mayor’s sister-in-law not be able to make money?”
“William, you don’t need to lecture me, you are an enemy of mine, and I harbor a deep and irreconcilable hatred for the Rowland Family! This is what the Rowland Family owes my mother!” Peter raged.
“All the evidence you possess has its sources, if I bribed my way into some business dealings, how can I let outsiders capture this evidence? The so-called 100 million yuan deficit can’t be traced anywhere. Let me tell you, I left it deliberately, and as for the sum of money that has not been found in the numerous tax investigations, it has already been returned to Rowland Group’s account, the invoices are all there!” William showed a faint smile. Peter was taken aback, as if he had become nervous. “And one more thing I have to tell you, mine and Liam’s son have already been found! Are you surprised by this?”
“Impossible!” Peter was shocked.
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“Dan is my son, I really thought you were an intelligent person, but I never expected you to be so dumb!” William was actually even a little disappointed. “My father has gone to see your mother; so I think we’ll know the truth very soon. Now I’m beginning to be unconvinced that you are still my close friend, Since you really are too dumb! Although what you did with Dan was very clever, everything else was rather mediocre.”
“Well, you’re still going to jail!” Peter wasn’t listening to anything William was saying, he was still shocked that William knew those things about the boy.
William’s words were very dismissive: “If you give up and stop what you are doing, then I will act as if nothing happened. But if you refuse, then you can go to the police and report me, mind you, I advise you that all your efforts in the end will only make you look like more of a fool, and you will be the middle man who has helped promote the Rowland Group’s good image. Also, regarding the case of the corpse that was stolen 6 years ago, no one has been found yet! The doctor at the G City clinic, Kaitlyn, who was the one who helped Sarah give birth, do you want her to come forward and be a witness?”
“You…” Peter was stunned. “So it turns out you’d been preparing for this for a long time?”
“It’s always best to plan ahead just in case, however, I never wanted to have to do this! Give it up, Peter!” William stood up. “As for how to do it, that’s up to you, but I’m going home now to accompany my wife and children! Thank you for returning my son to Sherry.”
Peter looked utterly defeated with his head down, “It wasn’t me who did it!”
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John had returned with a middle-aged woman in her 50s. He took her straight to the company president’s office.
However, William and Peter were still there.
Alice arrived and knocked on the door to report, “President, the chairman of the board is here!”
“Okay!” William hung up the phone.
The door opened. Peter turned his head toward, looked at John and his mother Ava who had come in, he was surprised, “Mother, why did you come back?”
“Peter, didn’t you promise your mother something? You promised her that you would never do anything to hurt the Rowland Family again.” Ava couldn’t help but bring tears to her eyes at the sight of her son, “How could you break your promise?”
“Mother, why, I can’t understand why, why do you keep speaking for him even though he abandoned you?” Peter pointed at John and was filled with grief.
John turned his gaze to William, who was feeling a bit convoluted, but then turned back to Peter.
“No! He didn’t abandon me, he didn’t!” Ava shook her head. “Son, you’re wrong, you’re really very wrong! It’s not at all what you’re imagining.”
“Then what happened?” Peter didn’t understand why his mother had always defended John. “Why do you always protect him, have you forgotten all the hardships you’ve faced during your life?”
“Ava, don’t say anything. Peter, it’s true that I owe you a lot. In my heart you are a son to me, I just didn’t expect it to be you!” John approached him.
Peter told him coldly, “Don’t pretend to be so kind.”
John was taken aback.
“No! Peter, he’s not your father, he really isn’t!” Ava shook her head, “John, thank you for continuing to say he’s your son so far, but I can’t let him hurt you anymore!”
William and Peter were surprised, but William was even more confused, why was Ava saying he wasn’t but his father was saying he was?
“Mother, you don’t need to defend him, I don’t believe it!”. Peter shook his head.
“Regardless of whether you believe it or not, he’s not your father. I’m sorry, it’s my fault, And to be honest I don’t even know who your father is!”
“Ava, say no more!” John wanted to stop her.
“No, John, I really want to thank you and Nicole, Thank you for the kindness, but my son hurt yours and I’m really sorry for you guys! I came home today to explain everything! Otherwise, for the rest of my life I will be left with a guilty conscience.” Ava wiped her tears with her handkerchief and began to explain Peter’s life story. “Peter, I really loved John before, however he did not love me. He was the most infatuated and dedicated man in the world, he had only loved one woman before, and that is Nicole. Nicole and I were classmates; I have made mistakes before, I have even done things as extreme as you. I used every means possible to try to make John mine, however in the end he only loved Nicole. So even though I tried my best to seduce him, I never succeeded.”
“Mother, this can’t be true!” how could Peter believe this, “You said before that he was my father!”
Ava shook her head, “No, this was due to John and Nicole’s kindness, in the past they promised me that if I could not locate your father then they would be willing to put your home record under their house, and allow you to be a member of the Rowland Family. However, how could I let that happen? You are not John’s son.”
“Then who is my father?” Peter was completely shocked.
“Ava, stop talking!” John tried again to make her stop.
“No, I must tell you, I can’t let you go on believing a lie! Peter, I really don’t know who your father is. One night, thirty-one years ago, I was raped by three men, then I got pregnant and had you. Therefore, I could not tell you the truth, as it is the most painful and hardest experience I have ever faced. Eight years ago you asked me who your father was and I had no choice but to tell you that John was your father, however I never expected you to start hating them.” Ava began to feel embarrassed as she thought about it.
“How could this be?” Peter had never dreamed that he would just be a product of gang violence, AND that even his mother didn’t know who his real father was!
He staggered and fell back in his chair, losing all strength.
William was also shocked to hear this information.
John sighed, “Peter, your mother is a very strong person. She never came to see me all this time, so I never knew you were her son.”
“Peter, I’m sorry. I don’t know whose son you are.” Tears again fell from Ava’s eyes. Peter was silent, now that he had found out the truth, what the hell had he done? “Didn’t you promise me you wouldn’t do stupid things to hurt others? But yet you did, John, I thought I would have told William five years ago! That he was the one who took the boy!” As Ava finally said this, she walked over to William and looked gently at him and asked, “Are you Will?”
“Yes!” William nodded his head.
“I’m so sorry for you and your mother. If I had told Sherry in person that that child was her son, everything would have been fine!”
“You were the one who put the child by the river?” asked William in surprise.
“Yes, the boy Peter brought in one day was only five days old, and he said he had picked him up and wanted me to help take care of him for a while. I took care of the child for a short time, but I soon realized that wasn’t right. When I asked him about the child, he told me that he was the son of you, William, and a surrogate mother. Peter said that he wanted revenge and that was why he had exchanged the child, so at that point I was afraid and did not dare to go looking for the Rowland Family. He also told me that if I kept the child, he could marry another woman who could not conceive a child! He also told me that since that girl knew that the child was born of you and someone else, she would treat him badly and so I was worried that I would cause him great harm if I returned him. I am a mother myself and therefore know what it feels like to separate a mother from her child. I found the child’s birth certificate in Peter’s purse with Sherry’s name written on it. I paid someone to find Sherry for me and that person gave me a photograph, so I hurried to write a letter and took the child to the side of the river. I didn’t dare show my face because I was afraid Peter would be implicated and suffer some consequences. So I could only hide nearby and watch secretly. I never expected that day Sherry was going to jump into the river and enter the river while the boy was crying. And maybe it was the connection between a mother and her child that made Sherry go back to pick up the child, and in the end, once she had him in her arms, she was unable to let go, crying and smiling at the same time. I watched from the sidelines feeling very comforted…and thought she would understand the situation once she read the letter and then realized that this child was really hers.”
“But Sherry doesn’t know that!” William felt very upset that Sherry had attempted suicide before, and felt it was really bad.
“Yes, when I got home I found that the letter had fallen out and been left at my house, I picked it up and wanted to find it again but Peter said he would give it to Sherry.”
“I never gave it to her!” Peter said painfully, “Mother, why didn’t you tell me all this before?”
“Then it’s all my fault, John, I’m sorry I let you and Nicole down!” Ava approached John guiltily, “I really have so many things that are my fault, I was the one who taught, raised Peter, in the end I didn’t teach him right, So it’s all my fault! We both feel it and we caused them a lot of pain, and to be honest I don’t know how to make it up to them.”
“It’s all in the past now! The child has been brought back! So don’t blame yourself.” John shook his head, “Will, arrange a hotel for Ava, she came back with me in a hurry and hasn’t had that much time to rest!”
“Fine!” William immediately called the secretary to arrange it.
Once William ended the call he glanced back at Peter, who was slumped over without saying a word for a long time.
“Peter, the past is the past! What happened is over and no one will ever mention it again, you’re still my close friend!”. William was being very indulgent.
Peter stood up, looked at William with a complicated expression and then hurriedly said, “I’m sorry.” He picked up Ava and walked away.
“Peter…” William called out to him in a low voice.
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